I have a bleeding heart. And I don’t know what to do about it.
On Thursday at school, a teacher gave me one of her students for a time out. This little girl took her ‘time out’ in my room. After that, I sat her on my lap (she is a really little 6 year-old) and began to talk with her about what was going on in her classroom. Slowly, this little girl elongated her body, until her head was in the crook of my arm. Then, she began sucking her thumb.
I almost lost it. This little girl is most likely having a rough time in school because she is missing some lovin. We sat like that for 20 minutes (there was a different teacher in my room…I wasn’t neglecting the others). But now, I want to see this little one. Maybe she can eat lunch with me, maybe she can spend her recess time with me…?
The problem is, I feel like this often. With many of the inequalities I see, in many of the people who are effected by them. If you’ve read my previous posts, I am already taking one of my ‘boys’ shopping and to job interviews, etc., so that he may get out of his homeless shelter. I am already taking a previous student and her sister to swim lessons and the library and out to dinner every week. I don’t have enough time or money to keep doing this with every (very) sad case I see.
But think this is an unexplicable symptom of my bleeding heart. And I can’t seem to stop it.
Your “bleeding heart” is what makes you who you are! I know the little one you are talking about…don’t you just want to take her home? As often as she goes over the top, I still have a huge soft spot in my heart for her, and for her little brother!